Single lever back plane connector system
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsDavid M. Little, Timothy L. Kocher
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Abstract
An electrical connector system is disclosed having a pin header and housing assembly which can be latched and separated by the action of a single lever. The subject system includes a pin header mountable on a printed circuit board or the like to enclose an array of pin terminals fixedly mounted therein. The pin header also includes a standoff feature allowing wire wrap connection to the terminals. A connector member is receivable in the pin header and, by means of a lever actuated cam, is locked therein and extracted therefrom. The connector member also includes strain relief means for conductors connected to receptacle terminals carried thereby and the ability to individually probe the terminals without dismounting the connector member from the pin header.
Claims15
An electrical connector system comprising:
- a pin header member defining an elongated cavity,
- a plurality of terminal pins in a fixed array in said cavity;
- latching means movably mounted on said header member;
- a connector member having a housing with a mating face profiled to be received in said elongated cavity;
- a longitudinal cavity extending substantially the length of and opening at one end of said housing;
- a plurality of contact channels extending transversely through said housing and opening both on said mating face and said longitudinal cavity;
- a plurality of terminals each received in a respective contact channel and having a first mating portion at one end directed toward said mating face, an intermediate conductor engaging portion and a probe tail at the opposite end;
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- strain relief means engageable between conductors, attached to said terminals and said housing.
A back plane header system for mating a male connector member with a fixed array of pin terminals, said system comprising:
- a pin header member having an elongated cavity and adapted to provide stand-off shroud protection about said pin array;
- means on said pin header to latchingly engage said male connector member;
- said male connector member having a housing with an external profile defining a mating face receivable in said pin header cavity;
- a longitudinal cavity extending substantially the length of said housing and opening at one end thereof;
- a plurality of contact channels passing transversely through said housing opening on said mating face and said longitudinal cavity;
- a plurality of terminals each received in a respective contact channel and having a first mating portion at one end opening on said mating face, an intermediate conductor engaging portion and a probe tail at the opposite end extending substantially the length of said contact channel;
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- strain relief means on said housing engageable with conductors attached to said intermediate portion of said terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.